is nws ale, but here the league is fantastic, but we need to make sure that players are forming and the lea k that players are forming and the leak players are transitioning into the national team because i think it is suffering at the moment. now as the coronoavirus continues to have an affect on sport, the football league have today announced they're following the lead of the premier league in that they‘ re dropping handshakes at the start of games. at the she believes cup the pre—match handshakes last night were already a little bit different as the usa and england performed elbow touching, giving us an insight into what could become commonplace in sport with the global spread of the virus. well, ireland's 6 nations game against italy has ofcourse been postponed due to the coronavirus but the other two games go ahead and worcester warriors fly—half duncan weir could win his first cap under scotland coach gregor townsend for sunday's game against france. weir has been named on the bench at murrayfield. his last cap came back in 2017. there's been three changes to the starting line up that beat italy. nick haining is in at number eight. fraser brown will earn his 50th cap as hooker. and grant gilchrist will start in the second row. meanwhile the decision by england to leave out

mako vunipola from their game against wales as a precautionary measure against coronavirus has been criticised by public health england. they described the move as unnessesa i’y. vunipola is still training with his club saracens and will start against leicester in the premiership tomorrow. that's the sport. now on bbc news it's time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have this week? a very mixed bag, we have on the right which is an animated quest. we had first met, inspired by a true story of strength through song. and

escape from pretoria which does pretty much what it says on the tin. so onward, it begins any fantastical world in which magic has been superseded by more down—to—earth, electricity and gas. two brothers, chalk and cheese, one believes in the old myths of sword and sorcery and the younger one is a slightly went on, they botch a spell to bring back their lost fan every day. they only managed to bring back half of him, so they must embark upon a quest —— at their lost a father for a day. they must learn to control their newly found magic. here we go. focus. something wrong? sorry, it'sjust your stance is... here, chin up, elbows out, feet apart, back slightly arched. ok, how does that feel? great. one more thing... barley! 0k, 0k.

says magic words don't let the magic spook you. 0k. elbows. what? elbows up. no, no, no — it's too high, that's too high. i'm trying to focus here! oh, yeah, yeah. focus. it worked! the can is huge! and you're... oh, no! that makes me think a little bit of harry potter. and a little bit of shrek. at the beginning, i thought this does not have the classic, like toy story toys come out of the ring, oi’ toy story toys come out of the ring, or they generate power in monsters inc. at the beginning i was thinking, i do not get it, they are

any magic world, but there is not magic. what happens half way through is that the film really finds its feet and become centrally about the two brothers and their relationship and then it builds toward a third act which, somehow, from the case of the narrative up until that point manages to pull, like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, a really satisfying resolution that makes you go, oh, iforgive you really satisfying resolution that makes you go, oh, i forgive you for everything that was a misstep up until that point. as i do not think it isa until that point. as i do not think it is a classic, but i think that the last act is so good... that is so the last act is so good... that is so curious. the end of a film is the thing that really defines a film. people come out of this film with a really warm, feel good feeling, despite the fact there is a good section of it which is derivative, obscure, a bit like we have all seen it before, but this is not hanging together. it hits the third act and then you go, iforgive together. it hits the third act and then you go, i forgive you for everything you have got wrong until now. as a tibial vp? the story could

make me cry. —— is it a weepy?” confess i was mad, but i did not cry as much as i did any next movie which was at this week which is military wives. it was made by the person who made full monty and inspired by a true story. it is about the partners of a service people finding strength through a singing group. we have chalk and cheese are characters again, kristin scott thomas who is kate a hood who has appetite, beliefs and classical music and we had lisa played by sharon horgan who says, why can we not sing pop songs? or cyndi lauper‘s time after time? if anyone sings cyndi lauper‘s time after time, i lose it. it hit some very obvious button pushing moments, some of the characters are done in thumbnails, but it is one of those films that just. .. i thumbnails, but it is one of those films thatjust... i have seen it

twice now and both times i have laughed solidly because there is a great comic chemistry between kristin scott thomas and sharon horgan particularly and there are four or five sequences horgan particularly and there are four orfive sequences in horgan particularly and there are four or five sequences in which i just wept because the thing about it is that for all the things that are wrong with it, for all the things that are cliched, corny, it gets little details right. it is amazing how much a small detail, someone packing away their partner's things by the time that they will be away on their tour of duty, somebody asking, how do you cope? do you just not talk about it? and then being greeted by silence. these little moments that mean when everyone bursts into song and when they start writing the songs inspired by the letters, it all comes together. i think, as i say, i have seen it twice and there are many things that you could pick holes in, but i do not care to because it worked on an emotional level and i cried like an idiot. if you cried, then i will be counted. we can guarantee that. i love crying in movies. i quite like

a good cry to be honest. escape from pretoria based on twitter again? based on tim jenkin basilashvili book he was arrested in apartheid south africa —— tim jenkin's book. he is given a very long sentence and believes that it is his absolute duty to continue to oppose the apartheid regime by attempting to break out. how do you break out? you're ina break out. how do you break out? you're in a prison behind several locked doors. an apparently insurmountable problem, but not so. it isa insurmountable problem, but not so. it is a clip. for many nights i sat on my bed and stared at the lock. i tried 100 ideas in my mind. and then, i tried 100 more.

it sat there, staring back at me, every single night. and then it dawned on me, you don't have to know everything. you only have to know enough. quiet! start with what you know and you work backwards. so how do you get the lock open? the obvious answer is you're going to need keys. as you have from that clip, it has an interesting array of accents, not all of which are com pletely accents, not all of which are completely on the money all the way through. i have always thought that the flow is any film reveal whether the flow is any film reveal whether the film is good or bad because if a film is good enough to get you over those flaws, it means that something is working. i worried about the accents is working. i worried about the a cce nts we re is working. i worried about the accents were about ten minutes and then ijust got caught up in the

study. in this extraordinary story of how on earth do you get out of this prison with all of these locks. the film is put together very, very well in terms of the way in which it gets you invested in the minutiae of this solution that they come up with. the fact that you know it is a true story, but at the same time your start sort of going, that cannot work, you cannot possibly do that, and then you start to see them do it. i think it was really gripping and! do it. i think it was really gripping and i confess i was uncertain about... i was uncertain because i'd heard the trailer and heard some of the accents not been really great, but it didn't matter to me. i thought it was a really gripping thriller. people talk betting on the edge of your seat and at one point, i thought i am actually on the edge my seat. i am really, really worried about whether the bit of the chewing gum on the end of that stake will be able to pick up the thing you have dropped, which is an indication of it

working. —— on the end of that stick. best out? we both love... portrait of a lady on fire. i am a huge fan of her anyway i love girlhood. this is an 18th—century story where someone assented to paint somebody she does not want to paint. she envisaged the film as a treaty is on the female gaze, and i think it is that, but the reason it works is because it engages you emotionally. it is like a thriller. you believe in the characters. it is beautiful to look at. it was absolutely beautiful. there are moments where you think that actually looks like a... very striking and the constant crackle of the fire threat so much of it. and a very sparse use of music and what music there is is generated on screen. the major sequences and the

sequence screen. the major sequences and the sequence at the end in which the title of the film happens and eve ryo ne title of the film happens and everyone is clapping and singing, i thought that sequence was absolutely mesmerising. i thought it was easy and strange and beautiful and powerful and i was thrilled by the film. i absolutely loved it. terrific. i am glad you like it as much as i do. dvd? doctor can't sleep. there's nothing better than a film that delivers more than you expect. —— doctor sleep. it influences —— to claim this is from both stephen king and the sleeping quebec film. ifell for both stephen king and the sleeping quebec film. i fell for it and i thought this is so much better than anyone had any right to expect thank you very much, see you next time. enjoy your cinema going whatever you choose to see this week. the next

time. good evening. we saw a good deal of sunshine across the country today. it was quite chilly after that co nsta nt, it was quite chilly after that constant, but at least you had the sunshine to compensate, including the south—east which thy much better today today and yesterday. overnight and it stays quite chilly, a touch of frost again, all change at best the next weather system moving and brings wet and windy weather. we could see some snow on the high ground of scotland very well, but temperatures will be recovering across northern ireland, the far south—west as that area of low pressure m oves south—west as that area of low pressure moves on. it does bring an u nsettled pressure moves on. it does bring an unsettled weekend with windier conditions for many of us and rain at times, followed by sunshine and showers on sunday. the pressure chart for saturday, low pressure making inroads and more isobars on the charts. hence the stronger winds developing and we will start to see rain piling and me, may across

northern scotland and northern ireland. perhaps pushing into north—west england and northern wales. it will be rather cloudy thread the daylight hours. simply note this:, could see some dry weather to. after that chilly start, you will notice the temperatures reaching 12, 13 celsius. a very mild for the time of year. it stays windy. gusts of 3a to 50 miles an hour. the wet weather stats to push its width saturday night. quite mad across southern and eastern areas, ten to 13 celsius. starting to be a better colour across northern ireland by and northern scotland by the end of the night. the weather front and the red band continue to move its way eastwards, introducing some cooler air dash make the rain band. the last of the mother and rain clears away from east anglia and the south—east on sunday morning. a strong south—westerly when bringing rain and showers. it

will be a chilly day for all by the end of the day. as we head into next week, monday at the next area of low pressure hu rtles week, monday at the next area of low pressure hurtles in at the atlantic. for those quickly by another one. a very unwelcoming across the country because the ground are still saturated, even though we have had a week of quite a bit of sunshine around. it is looking unsettled into next week, spells of wet and windy weather and perhaps gales, some severe as well.

another big rise in the number of people infected by coronavirus in the uk. 163 people are now infected — more than 20,000 people have been tested. the government has pledged an extra £46 million for research into coronavirus vaccines and faster testing. it looks to me as though there will certainly be a substantial period of disruption when we have to deal with this outbreak. keeping supermarkets stocked up — talks this afternoon between the government and retailers amid concerns that people have been stockpiling food. britons are among the 5,000 holidaymakers quarantined on this cruise ship off california — testing kits are air—dropped on board. tonight, another big rise

in the number of deaths in italy —